So let's see....Her Dad doesn't want her about to keep peace in the household (one presumes). Her Mum is not offering her a space. She is presumably wearing out her welcome at friends and none of her rug-munching compatriots are stepping up.Is it just me, or is the problem HER rather than everyone else?

When the London rioters were sent down one mother bitterly complained to the newspapers about the harsh treatment her "18 year old child" had been given for his childish and criminal behaviour.

One newspaper comment on the article deploring his behaviour was from a WW2 RAF veteran who at 18 had been a Lancaster flight engineer doing bombing raids over Nazi Germany.Says it all really,God help us if we ever get into another really big war,if this is the calibre of young people today,excepting those lads serving in Afghanistan,our best and bravest being cruelly misused to serve a politicians vanity.Politicians,fucking scum every one of them.

My only concern is that Jessica has now been told what she has to do to qualify for a flat, and no doubt someone will oblige - probably claiming right of residence while they are about it.

Although I don't wholly approve, there is something galling about a British citizen being told that they have a lower priority than an arriving foreigner who will promptly claim child benefit, the cost of education (and that's at least £60k per child) and NHS treatment.

I don't want to pay for Jessica, but I'd rather give her say, a year's free housing so she can find her feet than encourage her to shake the benefits tree for life.